RCNA
01 Sep 10 edition
Visions for a national nursing and midwifery workforce strategy.
Article from the Joint ANF/RCNA Pandemic Influenza Working Group.
RCNA launches new Movement Disorders and Parkinson’s Nurses Faculty.
The need for a comprehensive nursing and midwifery workforce strategy has never been more apparent, writes Debra Cerasa.
03 Aug 10 edition
Christine Hallinan MRCNA, Community and Primary Health Care Faculty Advisory Committee
RCNA meets with the Productivity Commission
With the first teleconference meeting of RCNA’s New Generation of Nurses Faculty (NGNF) just around the corner, the Faculty Advisory Committee (FAC) is eager to share its ideas on the purpose and potential of the faculty.
Dr Sally Goold is a Wiradjuri woman. Sally was instrumental in forming the Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nurses (CATSIN), an organisation of which she is currently Executive Director.
I am continually in awe of the expertise, experience and passion of RCNA members, and I would like to share some recent events that have led me, once again, to this realisation.
06 Jul 10 edition
RCNA’s inaugural Nursing Summit provided a unique forum for nurses to assemble and critique some of the long term challenges confronting the nursing profession and its role in Australia’s health care system now and into the future.
On Monday 31 May the Rural Nursing and Midwifery Faculty Advisory Committee (FAC) attended a face-to-face meeting, held at RCNA National Office in Canberra.
Summit delegates called on RCNA to provide a platform from which the nursing profession can demonstrate unity and call for collective action.
RCNA’s inaugural Nursing Summit has been one of our 2010 success stories.
01 Jun 10 edition
Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan handed down the 2010-11 Federal Budget on Tuesday 11 May.
Update from the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia
RCNA staff and ACT nurses gathered at the Australian War Memorial on 7 May to remember the Australian service nurses who lost their lives.
As the winter chill hits Canberra, issues around nurse practitioners and aged care are high on the agenda at a political level.
Bethany Hodgkins has always had an interest in science, having completed her first degree in nutrition at the University of Canberra (UC). At the beginning of 2010, she went back to uni to study nursing - the science of caring.
04 May 10 edition
The 2010 International Nurses Day, celebrated on 12 May, centres on the theme: Delivering quality, serving communities: Nurses leading chronic care.
GP Assist (Tasmania) is an after hours call centre which provides health care information and advice to patients across Tasmania, and is one of RCNA’s newest affiliates under the RCNA Corporate Partnership program.
Nurse practitioners (NPs) and advance practice nurses (APNs) are the lifeblood of health systems across the globe. However, models of care and legislation that set the boundaries of the APN and NP role differ considerably.
06 Apr 10 edition
It has been over 12 months since the inception of the first RCNA faculty, and RCNA faculties have come a long way since then.
Since launching its latest initiative to attract nursing students to RCNA, over 2300 nursing students across Australia have taken up this exciting offer.
02 Mar 10 edition
Royal College of Nursing, Australia (RCNA) provided a clear-cut pre-budget submission to the Department of Treasury in January to highlight priority areas for nursing and midwifery for the 2010-2011 Federal Budget.
RCNA is proud to announce our recent corporate partnership with Dental Health Services Victoria (DHSV).
02 Feb 10 edition
RCNA provides feedback on the draft national registration and accreditation standards for nursing and midwifery.
The road to nursing wasn’t always smooth for Dan Gordon, a new generation nurse currently employed at Calvary Hospital in Canberra.
05 Jan 10 edition
Through the RCNA Advisory Council, RCNA has undertaken a comprehensive review of the recommendations contained in the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission’s (NHHRC) final report.
01 Dec 09 edition
By Professor Glenn Gardner FRCNA, Clinical Chair, Queensland University of Technology
By Anne Gardner RN PhD, Professor of Nursing, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland on behalf of the ANF/RCNA Influenza Pandemic Working Group.
